The Splendid and the Vile

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Erik Larson
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Crown Publishing Group 2020-2-25 Hardcover 9780385348713

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Erik Larson’s latest work of narrative nonfiction is DEAD WAKE: THE LAST CROSSING OF THE LUSITANIA, which became an immediate New York Times bestseller. His saga of the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and won an Edgar Award for fact-crime writing, and lingered on various NYT best-seller lists for the better part of a decade. Hulu plans to adapt the book for a limited TV series, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese as executive producers. Erik’s IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS, about America’s first ambassador to Nazi Germany and his daughter, has been optioned by Tom Hanks for development as a feature film.

His next book, THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE: A SAGA OF CHURCHILL, FAMILY, AND DEFIANCE DURING THE BLITZ, due out in early spring 2020, is a story of geopolitical brinksmanship during Churchill’s first year as prime minister, but also an intimate domestic drama, set against the backdrop of Churchill’s prime-ministerial country house, Chequers, and his “full-moon home,” Ditchley, where Churchill, his family, and his “Secret Circle” convene when the moon is in its brightest phases and the bombing threat is highest.

Erik is a former features writer for The Wall Street Journal and Time. His magazine stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's and other publications.

He has taught non-fiction writing at San Francisco State, the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, the University of Oregon, and the Chuckanut Writers Conference, and has spoken to audiences from coast to coast. A former resident of Seattle, he now lives in Manhattan with his wife, a neonatologist and author of the nonfiction memoir, ALMOST HOME, which, as Erik puts it, "could make a stone cry." They have three daughters in far-flung locations and professions.

On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons (30,000 of them Londoners) and destroying two million homes. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally--that she was willing to fight to the end.

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一边在轰炸,一边在跳舞,英国人那时候是真的坚韧。花了两个晚上看完,文字很平了,没太大惊喜。

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##用近乎小说的写法,叙述了1940年5月到的941年5月丘吉尔作二战期间英国首相第一年的点点滴滴:40年5月底6月初的敦刻尔克,9月开始的德国空军对伦敦和英国其他地区的轰炸,丘吉尔对罗斯福及其特派人员的“投怀送抱”但又同时要面对本国人民对他过分依赖美国的批判,还有他身边亲近人物的故事(女儿Mary,私人秘书之一的Colville-这两人的日记有被作者大量引用),以及一些普通英国民众的心酸(作者依旧是引用私人日记和一些杂志收集的读者回复)。看得出作者是用心的,也是想在众多的丘吉尔/二战研究作品中脱颖而出独树一帜。文笔并没有很特别,感觉还可以再精雕细琢一些,不过估计也就不会有那么大的受众了吧。

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##“When I look back on the perils which have been overcome, upon the great mountain waves in which the gallant ship has driven, when I remember all that has gone wrong, and remember also all that has gone right, I feel sure we have no need to fear the tempest. Let it roar, and let it rage. We shall come through” - W. Churchill

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##John Lee作为朗读者,给这本书增添了不少色彩。有声书末尾丘吉尔的演讲更是加重了历史感。虽然知道事件发生的来龙去脉,但是这个故事似乎着重于人物刻画,所以更加接地气。

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一边在轰炸,一边在跳舞,英国人那时候是真的坚韧。花了两个晚上看完,文字很平了,没太大惊喜。

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##前几章的内容和电影至暗时刻中差不多,当然电影加工了一些。

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